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Important Security Fix for Wordpress
Well this article was most certainly an eye opener for me…yikes!
Important Security Fix for Wordpress
I deleted install.php as soon as I finished the article. Thank you Jeff!
By Linda
Feedburner Feedsmith Plug-in Category Fix
Feedburner WP plugin Category Fix enhances the original plugin to automatically redirect category feeds to the appropriate Feedburner feed. If you are using WordPress as a CMS and have a lot of sub categories, it’s a bit cumbersome to set up initially. Also, the plug-in has not been renamed (should be) to differentiate between the fix and the original plugin. I would recommend deactivating the original version and uninstalling it before installing this one to eliminate confusion. Needless to say, you need to use category permalinks for this to work.
To me, the cleanest way to solve this problem is still via htaccess but in my case, it caused timeout errors which I suspect has more to do with the host server than feedburner. But I’ll give this a shot for awhile and let you know if I have any issues.
By Linda
Starker’s Wordpress Theme
Web designer Elliot Jay Stocks offers a free Wordpress theme that has been stripped of all styling for those who wish to design their own theme from scratch. I plan to use this baby with my next design. Aaaah yes, no more sifting through pages of Wordpress’s default theme stylesheet to make alterations.
By Linda
Miniposts
Miniposts is a great little miscellaneous plug-in that’s growing on me. It allows you to add posts to your sidebar. With a little modification, I eliminated it from my category navigation (up above and in the sidebar topics tab). I’m currently using it for my Sidenotes on the home page.
By Linda
Clean Notifications
Clean Notifications is a handy little plug-in that does one simple but very nice thing: it cleans up e-mail notifications for new comments/pings sent out by Wordpress. No configuration is required. Nice!
By Linda
Reveal IDs for WP Admin
There are times it is helpful to know the IDs assigned by Wordpress for categories, posts, pages, etc. Reveal IDs for WP Admin does the job nicely. Once the plug-in is installed, you can see the id assigned on each major admin page (posts, categories, media, etc.). I use it to exclude specific categories from my navigation menu.
By Linda
Intense Debate
I’m currently trying out IntenseDebate to see what the hoopla is all about. It integrates with WordPress and syncs between the two. Comments are saved on both systems so that if you change your mind, you still have your blog comments.
By Linda
Twitter Tools
The Twitter Tools plug-in integrates Twitter with your WordPress blog. You can set it up to Tweet each time you add a post to your blog or add one daily tweet digest. You can also go the other way: add posts to your blog from your tweets. It has a sidebar widget for displaying your twitter account activity. You can even tweet from your admin panel.
By Linda
WP Candy – Wordpress Help Sheets
Although WordPress Codex offers the most complete descriptions of tags in WordPress, cruising the terms is a cumbersome process. I ran across two nifty cheat sheets for the more common tags:
By Linda
Smart YouTube
Smart YouTube allows you to embed videos into your posts, comments, and RSS feeds. And it supports YouTube’s new High Quality feature. Nice.
By Linda
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